Setup Ruby on Rails with Windows

How to Setup Ruby on Rails with Windows?

Requirements: Windows OS (10/8/7), Ruby Installer v2.3 or upper

At first, we need to install Ruby on our system.

• Go to Ruby official site https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ then download the version of Ruby, then install it on your specific location.

  #=> After installing ruby check the version
  $ ruby -v
  ruby 2.3.1p112 # Or somthing like this

• Then download the Development Kit from the same link as above.
• Create a folder which called devkit inside the Ruby folder

  Ruby/devkit

• Extract downloaded devkit inside the devkit folder
• Run command inside the devkit folder

  #user/Ruby/devkit
  $ ruby dk.rb init
  $ ruby dk.rb install

• Run command inside the ruby folder “gem install rails”

  Ruby
  $ gem install rails 
  #=> After installing rails check version
  $ rails -v
  Rails 5.0.6

• Create rails project

  $ rails new project
  #=> After created project then below command
  $ cd project
  $ bundle install
  #=> Configure database
  $ bundle exec rake db:create
  $ bundle exec rake db:migrate
  $ rails server
  
  => Booting Puma
  => Rails 5.0.6 application starting in development on http://localhost:3000
  => Run `rails server -h` for more startup options
  *** SIGUSR2 not implemented, signal based restart unavailable!
  *** SIGUSR1 not implemented, signal based restart unavailable!
  *** SIGHUP not implemented, signal based logs reopening unavailable!
  Puma starting in single mode...
  * Version 3.10.0 (ruby 2.3.1-p112), codename: Russell's Teapot
  * Min threads: 5, max threads: 5
  * Environment: development
  * Listening on tcp://0.0.0.0:3000
  Use Ctrl-C to stop
  
  

• Open the browser. Write “localhost:3000” on the address bar and press the Enter key.

That’s all! Enjoy development/programming with Ruby on Rails 🙂